There's much more reading in college than in high school. ... American educational psychologist Francis P. Robinson introduced this method of reading comprehension and retention in 1946.

Active reading strategies: Encourage students to engage with texts actively. This means underlining key points, jotting down questions in the margins, and summarizing main ideas after each section.

And while reading teachers spend less than a quarter of the class time devoted to reading working on comprehension, that’s still magnitudes more than the less than 1 percent of time research ...

Their teachers received 16 hours of training in how to teach reading comprehension this way and also delivered traditional analog reading lessons to their students. After six months, students who ...

Decades of testing-centered instruction, a pandemic, and more have left a generation of college students unable to handle the usual reading load. The Week US Edition ...

So, yes, reading in the U.S. is in a state of emergency. Yes, college students — and everyone else — are reading fewer novels. However, if we want to point fingers, we should start with ourselves.